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by hk__2 2874 days ago
> He basically ported the addon to Safari and put a donation beg message up on the website.

No, he _created_ the website. That’s why I wrote “scammy website”. The domain name was registrated on April 18, 2015 [1]. The homepage has since changed, but at that time, it was begging for donations [2]. It had a donorbox campain, since taken down, that asked for ridiculous amounts such as "$25: Covers hosting the uBlock website for one week".

[1]: http://www.whois-raynette.fr/whois/ublock.org

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150601002655/https://www.ubloc...

[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150601002729/https://donorbox....